2002年2月22日，美国总统布什和夫人劳拉在北京游览八达岭长城。马占成摄

US President George W.Bush and his wife Laura are thronged by a group of Chinese children when they went sightseeting atop the great Wall in Beijing on February 22, 2002.

Xinhua Photo by Ma Zhancheng

 

 

 

2002年4月5日出版的美国《科学》杂志以14页的篇幅发表中国12家科研单位合作完成的科学专论——《水稻（籼稻）基因组的工作框架序列图》。

王岩摄

"Science", a US published magazine, issued on April 5, 2002 a cover story on China's achievements on drawing out the paddy gene framework and data collected by Chinese scientists form the country's 12 scientific research institutions.

Xinhua Photo by Wang Yan

 

2001年11月19日凌晨，北京、南京等地爆发了新世纪第一场狮子座流星雨。数以万计的北京市民及天文爱好者到郊区的各观测点观看流星雨。图为在北京怀柔拍摄到的流星雨。

李俊东摄

A shower of Leonid meterors streak across the sky above an ancient Great Wall watchtower in Huairou County of Beijing early on November 19, 2001. Tens of thousands of stargazers in Beijing, Nanjing and other parts of China watched the meteor storm, the first to be seen in the country this century. 

Xinhua Photo by Li Jundong

中国第一条机器蛇2001年底在湖南长沙国防科技大学诞生。这条机器蛇长1.2米，直径0.06米，重1.8千克，最快前进速度可达每分钟20米，实现了类似于生物蛇一样的“无肢运动”。这是机器蛇内部构造图。

熊博摄

A bionic robot in the form of a real snake invented by the National Defence Science and Technology University of China make its first public show in Changsha,capital of Central China's Hunan Province. The "snake" Weighs 1.8 kilogram, and is 1.2 meters long and 0.6 meters in diameter. The "Snake" can move at a speed of 20 meters per minute. Covered in genuine snakeskin, it glides just like a real snake.

Xinhua Photo by Xiong Bo